First I will say that I definitely love you all...
As the New Year approaches our present enjoyment of GOD'S GRACE is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But GOD is the GOD of our yesterdays, and HE allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future..."GOD requireth that which is past." At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that GOD has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return (don't I know this right well), but GOD can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of CHRIST. Leave the Irreparable Past in HIS hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with HIM.(Oswald Chambers) Please consider CHRIST this year for all the reasons that you may find yourselves considering so many other things without HIM.
As I truck along in this prison time I have discovered wonderful nuggets of truth that have me always in search of HIS standard for my life. I miss many things from the outside world, but mostly I miss the missed opportunities to be with loved ones...and hey that's a lot of misses in that sentence! Be free enough to laugh at yourself this year my friends because after all I'm locked up enough for all of us..and HE brings me daily joy...sometimes....often even...in hearty laughter at my own ridiculousness. Ain't HE cool like that for you?
Isaiah 30 will be a good read today if you will take the time to see what's in it for you from our LORD and SAVIOR..JESUS the CHRIST..
later...
dougie boy
